Tile construction



E. CERIAT. TILE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-2| 1 92l.

1,420,020, Patented J 11119 20, 1922.

INVENTOH: EUGENE Care/,4 1-,

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Application filed August 2, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE CERIAT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Tile Construction, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices used in building up walls.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a block or tile thatcan be built up to form a rigid wall in which the inner face isinsulated from the outer face or portion.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles, to be arranged in a wall sothat the longer shank forms the inner and outer surface of the wallwhile the shorter shank forms the interengaging portion between theinner and outer surface.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles to be arranged in a wall asset forth above, having recesses and ducts in which re-enforcing rodscan be arranged for binding the several tiles in each layer and forbinding the several layers of tiles one layer with the other.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles of this type of a shape andform to allow a ventilation in a vertical and horizontal direction whenthe tiles are placed in a wall.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appendedclaims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is aperspective view of a typical unit in form of a block, molded orfinished in itself before being placed in a wall.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a wall section, illustrating theinterengaging of sev eral blocks.

Each single block or unit is made with the idea in view of facilitatingand simplifying the building up of a wall. The preferred form,illustrated in Fig. 1 in detail, is of L-shape, the longer shank 3forming normally the inner and outer surface of a wall, while theshorter shank 4 forms an intermediate member or portion between theinner and outer surfaces of a wall when the block is so placed. All theedges 5, 6, 7 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1922.

Serial No. seams.

9, so that the wall, inside as well as out side, can be fully and wellsealed or grouted in, as indicated at 10 in Fig. 2. The edges 11 and 12are also preferably provided with grooves, as indicated at 13. Theshorter shank-portion 4: is furthermore provided with a passage 1 1 toallow the insertion of vertical re-enforcing rods. The end of theshorter shank 1 is preferably cut out as indicated at 15, leaving theproportionally small terminations 16, for purposes which will bedescribed more fully hereafter.

In building up a wall, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the ends 17 of thelonger shankportions of the several blocks are placed against theshoulders 18 ,of the joining blocks so as to bring the surface 19 of oneblock flush with the surface 19 of the adjoining block. The re-enforcingrods 20 and 21 are placed in the grooves 9, so as to become embeddedbetween the several layers of blocks in a wall.

To assure a well aligned wall, the longer shank-portions 3 are disposedin a wall properly spaced so that the ends 16 of the shorter shanks 1 donot come into contact with the inner surface of the longershankportions. In making blocks or tiles of this type, it is impossibleto avoid slight differences in the length of the shank portions, and, ifthe blocks or tiles were placed so close as to touch one another, itwould normally be hard to align the outer surfaces of the many blocks ina wall. Under the arrangement, described above, the slight space,indicated at 22, may differ between different blocks without bringingthe outer surfaces of the several blocks out of alignment. The cut-outs15 in the ends of the shorter shank-portions serve to form horizontalventilating passages, as indicated at 23.

Beenforcing rods 24 are disposed in the passages 14 of the blocks, beinggrouted in, as indicated at 25, serving to interconnect the severallayers in a wall and re-enforcing the whole wall.

The different layers in a wall are, of course arranged so as to bringthe several blocks in one layer suitably shifted over the blocks in thelayer above or below, as indicated in dotted lines at 26.

The spaces between the shorter shank-portions 4 and the longershank-portions3 Serve "form horizontal passages in each of the layers ofthe structure, the shorter shanks being also disposed in spaced relationto one another'to form vertical passages for ventilation, -re-enforcingrods embedded between theseveral layers in the structure, and otherre-enforcing rods disposed through the shorter'sh'anks for connectingand re-enforcing thestructure vertically.

2. Ina tile, a rectangular portion to form the' face member 'ina wall, asecond rectangular portion projecting at practically right angles fromone of the edges of the first named portion to form the connectingmember within the wall for the face members when face members aredisposed in the opposite surfaces of the wall, the second-named portionhaving means for forming horizontal passages between the inner and outersurfaces in a wall.

3. In a tile, a rectangular portion to form a face member of a wall, asecond rectangular portion projecting at practically right angles fromone of the edges of one of the fiat surfaces of the first-named portion,the free end of the secondnamed portion having a cutout to form ahorizontal ventilating passage when placed against a second tile, thesecondnamed portion being furthermore provided with a passage from edgeto edge practically parallel to the flat faces of the first-namedportion for allowing a grouting-in of re-enforcing rods in a verticaldirection, the edges of both rectangular portions having grooves toallow a grouting-in of adjoining tiles.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE CERIAT.

Witnesses:

O. H. KRUEGER, Jnssm A. MoNooK.

